That's a pity as I was hoping to ask him if he knew the Pope's religion or where Bears defecate

I confess it was me but what I actually said was " it is known in sport that reporters cliche any article within their authorsphere." But I was misquoted. And the creation of two excellent neologisms was ignored, the verb to cliche, and authorsphere, which I think are excellent additions to the art of journalese.



and to answer AJW's awesome questions, the Popes religion is a mystery to me, and goldilocks didn't get as far as that so I never found out.



Seriously now, the number of trite blatant mouthpiece articles in the TnA has reduced substantially, helped by having something good on the pitch to write about.

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No Ulugia in the 19 man squad sent via e-mail from Bulls, but Williams is back. Assume injury, as Adam Henry is also in the 19, and you would think Ulugia's effort last week would have let him keep his spot.

Conroy the other one to drop out.

Squad for Sunday:



Henry, AoB, Sidlow, Mellor, Purtell, Williams, Ferguson, Fleming, Lauaki, Uaisele, Mullaney, Pitts, Baile, Gaskell, Walshaw, Clough, Shaw, Tahraoui, Olbison.



I suspect Jimmy will go with:



Shaw

Uaisele

Baile

Purtell

Williams

Gaskell

Mullaney

Clough

AoB

Sidlow

Pitts

Olbison

Mellor



Tahraoui

Lauaki

Ferguson

Walshaw



With Henry and Fleming missing out.

Personally I would be tempted to give either Clough or Sidlow a week off and give Fleming a run out, but that probably won't happen.

I don't think we will rest anyone until the CC in two weeks time when we could potentially be drawn against an amateur outfit.



I expect (and hope) Jimmy will rest the entire squad, put those who haven't played much in and play the U21's as well. I don't want to see one of our first choice players in that CC game. Give others a go to get match fitness for the eatser period, and throw in some U21's.

Rubbish. I want the Bulls to win the Cup, and am already looking forward to Wembley. Hic.

Ironically I reckon we've got a better chance this year than we've had for the last couple of seasons, Wembeerrrllllyyyyy here we come, all too easy







And to be serious for a mo, a decent cup run against 1 or 2 SL teams could maybe tell us more about where we are in competitive terms for the middle 8's.

I would put Fleming in for Lauaki, get both of them match fit and sharp before giving Clough or Sidlow a week off. If I were Jimmy I would be playing as many of my first 17 as possible to get them jelling then do a bit of rotating, so its tough on Ulugia after last week but the needs of the team come first.

Hunslet 19 man squad:



Jimmy Watson

James Duckworth

Jimmy Keinhorst

Danny Maun

Vinny Finnigan

Andy Kain

Simon Brown

Danny Ansell

James Houston

Jack Lee

Andy Yates

Callum Casey

Rob Mulhern

George Flanagan

Luke Briscoe

Liam Mackay

Brad Brennan

Aaron Lyons

Brett Delaney

This dual reg is getting a bit out of hand for me, could understand if they were short of numbers but they have a massive squad and are having to send a side to Hunslet Parkside amateur side to get a game! Wonder if its Leeds saying I want XYZ playing as whats the point in signing a massive squad to not play them so Leeds players can play. Conflict of interests if you ask me Eaton being on the Leeds staff too

It's largely to our advantage though.



One of the major factors we need over the early season is quality opponents and a bit of intensity. Running up big scores against poor sides won't help us one iota when this qualification bit is over and we have to play SL sides in the middle eights.



To be fair, I pretty much agree with the idea it makes a mockery of the league when it is taken to excess, as it appears to be here, but on the plus side we'll [hopefully get a better game and the team will get a much better work out. Personally, I'll take the plusses.